The big topic of discussion lately is Fedora's proposal to drop 32-bit libraries (that will, frankly, almost certainly be rejected unfortunately). And the big worry is that this would break games. And this is a well-founded worry because it would break games, or at least it would break Steam.

But this is also a mostly solved problem, and the remainder is, while almost certainly unintentionally, Valve's fault. Let me explain.

Dropping 32-bit packages/libraries is different from dropping support for 32-bit code entirely (like Apple did). If Fedora were to adapt this proposal, 32-bit software would still work... if it brings its own libraries.

And that sounds difficult... except everyone already does this. Steam includes the Linux Runtime, a copy of all libraries games would need. Flatpak also exists for those who prefer it. So, native Linux games (the few that still exist) are unaffected by this proposal.

Well, what about Wine/Proton? They are also unaffected! Wine's new WoW64 mode allows running 32-bit Windows software without any 32-bit system libraries.

So, what exactly does this proposal break?

The big one most people care about is the Steam client itself. For some reason, it is still 32-bit-only (on Linux). That's one major blocker for dropping 32-bit support (and saving countless volunteer hours).

Why hasn't Steam been ported to 64-bit? Does Valve still think it's 2007? Who knows! They have ported it to 64-bit before, so it's clearly not a major technical limitation.

And to be clear, this isn't the only important thing dropping 32-bit support would break. But what makes it unique is that it is completely out of everyone's control. Other pieces of broken software can be fixed, or containerized, or rewritten. But nobody but Valve can port Steam.

So, we exist in this terrible situation. Maintainers understandably want to drop 32-bit support to save valuable volunteer time and resources. But that would break Steam, so any proposal to do so inevitably stalls. And there is nothing anyone (but Valve) can do about it.

That kind of sucks.

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Hello there, ive been try over the last few days to set up a 1.20.1 Minecraft server on Ubuntu and I have the server functional and I can play on it Internaly but no matter what I do nothing is allowed to connect from an external port, please help if you can

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My strong opinion is that steam as 32bit on linux was wrong already from the very begining in 2012/2013.

At least then Valve had some excuse that they did not know better. The thing is that now they do have the "right" solution already there. It is the "compatibility" where Proton exists. Not only Proton but other runtimes like linux runtimes and luxtorpedas and even game engines runtimes can be there.

So what is the point of having the 32bit runtime in the client? The answer is very simple. There is no point at all. It is just plain stupid. It solves nothing and only creates problem. Do you remember Linus Sebastian nuking his desktop? Yes it was the 32bit dependencies that broke. I personally on Arch Linux BTW use steam-native instead of steam for many years now and for some old games that need some old runtime I simply go and force a compatibility. So compatibility as optional is the way to go for the foreseeable future (in the distant future emulation will be the solution like we do now with 16bit games).

The right solution is already in place by Valve and we just wait since forever for valve to get rid of the problem and make the Steam client 64bit as it should be. On Mac they did the right thing because they where forced by Apple. On linux there is no one to force them but they still must do the right thing.

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Hey all! I don't know how many people need this, but in Source Engine games, when joining servers that use custom textures, a lot of maps will have missing textures due to Linux case sensitivity. This has been an issue since I think around December of 2024. I haven't really seen anyone talk about it around here, but I figured I'd post the fix here in case anyone needs it.

https://github.com/scorpius2k1/linux-bsp-casefolding-workaround

Disclaimer: I am not the person who made the fix. I only suggested a way to automate it to the creator of the fix. All credit goes to scorpius2k1

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Thats just reality. I'm actually shocked to see how the community responded to this whole "Fedora (Maybe) dropping 32bit support" thing.

1. The first thing to consider is it takes man hours to test and curate everything that goes into a distro. Building and supporting a distro is not free, if they can shed the tech debt without a big negative Impact then they absolutely should.

2. No, such a shift would not magically break all your games and end the world.

   People seem to have not learned that proton isn't the only option when running games in a separate environment.

   Valve was very aware that Linux's march forward had already broken games before which is why you can run your game in different "Linux runtimes" so your games don't reply on libs in your system.

   Seriously go test them. Everyone told me Civ V was broken on Linux but it isn't if you use the Linux runtime option in the settings.

3. People have also warned others about using one man show distros for THIS VERY REASON. They are fragile and lag the man power needed to deal with change or large tasks.

   Infact the Bazzite dev pointing out that its to much work for him to deal with grabbing and testing all the 32b libs should make it clear why Fedora wants to drop them in the first place. Its a bit insane to get mad that Fedora isn't doing free work for an unaffiliated project.

4. Steam isn't going to magically disappear, 64b Steam is already on the horizon simply as a matter of fact. How soon is upto Valve but its not going to magically be unusable as you can still grab what you need for Steam.

This isn't meant to jab at anybody, its just reality and if Bazzite fell theres more than enough distros out there to choose from.

If you are capable and have the time then offer your help to the Bazzite dev, just don't bug Fedora about another distro.

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I've already tried steamos but it's still way to laggy and it had way to many bugs so what distro do you recommend for the legion go ?

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Any recommendations for what I can do to get back into linux and maybe switch fully?

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I’m on nobara on b550m mb, ryzen 9 5900x, radeon rx 7800 xt, and 80 gb of ram

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Hi, how are you all doing? I was thinking of buying the Logitech G Pro X TKL or the Razer Huntsman v3 TKL Pro, and I need to know how they support Linux. I know you can control the rapid trigger, SOCD, analog, etc. options to a certain extent, but I'd like to know which of the two has better Linux support.

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The title says it, basically. I want to assemble a new gaming PC. Mini-ITX base and watercooled with a custom loop. But it has been a while that I was considering hardware compatibility on Linux and I am pretty sure a lot has changed in the 15 years since then. And please don't say "everything works" - There are just some products that are better on Linux than others, some others are easier, some more are better documented, some allow firmware updates in Linux which others don't, some have native Linux apps while others don't.. So which brands do you recommend concerning:
- CPU
- Graphics card (I realize AMD seems to be better supported, Nvidia has the more performant chips though, so how dire is the situation for current gen graphics gards really? And does the manufacturer matter in any way?)
- Mainboard (drivers would be the big point here I guess)
- Drives
also I would be happy for a tip about which brand to for concerning pump and fan control
I know it is quite a broad topic, but throw in your thoughts, even if it just covers a small part of it. Thanks a bunch :)

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Hi everyone, early i play firestorm in my arch linux but in this day i reinstall system. Now i try to download client and have a problem, in last time project firestorm have only launcher his worked but don't size free size in my disk

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Some guy on nvidia developer forum might just found the problem with lower nvidia performance in DX12 games.

Also lower performance in ray tracing on Linux seems to be intended feature, i don't really understand everything but you can read yourself below.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207/335?page=2

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I have a Ryzen 5800X coupled with a Radeon 7900GRE. I’m currently using the latest ZEN kernel with KDE Plasma on Wayland @3440x1440. I’m thinking maybe a configuration problem? On Windows I am seeing 102 average fps in the benchmark but only around 75-85 average fps in Linux through Steam. I am using stock Proton and have tried RADV and amdvlk drivers. Also image quality is not as good. I also notice similar in GTA 5. My expectation for image quality is an unimplemented API in Proton however running under gamescope looks better. Other games run fine and I didn’t think anything of it until I saw that it runs faster on Steam OS and thought to check. Thank you in advance for any feedback!

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Recently downloaded the Linux version of Summertime Saga on my steam deck and yet I can't play it for some reason even boot it up when I try to use Proton to play it please help me

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im surprised that despite having my sd card listed as the primary drive, all shaders and background info is getting spilled into the 64 gig internal. over a week its gone from 44 gigs or so at OOB to having 4 gb full, even after deleting games bc the shaders are deep in weird internal locations and also dont actually say the game name, just the steam app id. i would really like a step by step guide, written by a person, for a person with little to no linux knowledge on how to make this move to my sd card. i tried moving the compatdata folder to the root of my sd but i dont think its actually linked. i heard something about a symlink? i dont know, this is a lot for someone who only moved from mac to windows like 4 months ago, and is now having to learn linux stuff. thank you!

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My TF2 won't launch if my Vulkan shaders do not render to 100%. I am not resilient to wait 1 million years for Ubuntu to load the shaders. Is there any solution solution for this?

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So if you want the run down of what I did, the modlist I'm using has community shaders. So you can use the free upscaler mod, once you set it up correctly make sure XESS is set in the ini file. After that, setup optiscaler I have a stock game folder so I just set it up in there. And you should be good. You need to be on mesa-git still I think, and you can get both of the required dll's via this:

wget --referer https://support.amd.com https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.3.2-win10-win11-mar20-rdna.exe 7z e -r amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.3.2-win10-win11-mar20-rdna.exe amdxcffx64.dll amdxc64.dll

And then you put these two DLL's in your system32 folder, I have mine setup via steam so I would run protontricks -l to get the appid, and find it in my steam compatdata folder. Add this to your launch options: DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack %command%. Launch the game and choose FSR 3.X and profit. I can make a video on this if anyone want's as well.

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I have 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and i want to play on geforce now, but when i trying to play in chromium, gfn just doesn't see my controller, however in hardwaretester it works ideally. In firefox works everything except triggers (LT and RT). I tried asking chatgpt, but it was just "try downloading steam-devices" and "try reloading it". How can i fix that? I'm using Arch.

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